By: Joseph

3. How can methyl mercury be safe for injecting into the human body when mercury is an extremely toxic heavy metal, and one that is deemed to be a hazardous waste upon removal from a patient’s mouth? Answer: It isn’t safe at all.

@h_t_r: Are you unaware that there is no methyl mercury in vaccines? Thimerosal is metabolized into ethyl mercury.

But even if both types of mercury were toxicologically equivalent, you could easily make the same argument about almost anything else: How can methyl mercury be safe to ingest when you eat a tuna sandwich if mercury is an extremely toxic heavy metal, and so on? Any discussion of toxicity that doesn’t consider dosage is meaningless.